151. Collected Poems. London: MacMillan Co., 1926.
First Edition. Poetry collection. Near Fine, foxing to endpapers, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners. Item #26098
First Edition. Poetry collection. Near Fine, foxing to endpapers, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners. Item #26098
First Edition, First Issue Binding (2,000 copies printed). BAL 18751. Sterling was Jack London's best friend. By World War I, he would be known as the King of Bohemia and the poet laureate of San Francisco. In an accompanying essay to "A Wine of Wizardry," Abrose Bierce claimed not only that Sterling "is a very great poet - incomparably the greatest we have on this side of the Atlantic" but also that the poem itself ranked with those of Keats, Coleridge and Rossetti. Sterling's commitment to the metered and rhythmic confines of 19th century Romantic poetry placed him starkly at odds with the emerging free-verse and subjective inclinations of the modern poetry movement in Europe and the United States. Indeed, Sterling's work was consistently roasted by modernists, most notably Harriet Monroe, the influential founder and editor of the journal Poetry, who characterized Sterling's poetry as "the frippery of a by-gone fashion." By the time Sterling committed suicide in November 1926, in his Bohemian Club digs on Taylor Street, he had completed more than a dozen volumes of poetry and verse dramas, published in virtually every major literary magazine of his day and had been included in several major poetry anthologies, including Monroe's "The New Poetry" (1917). He also became a fine and widely published critic and essayist. Near Fine but for fading to spine cloth, in Good dustjacket, evenly chipped along top edge, inch chip off top spine end, chipping at lower front flap corner. Item #31148
First Edition. First Appearance of Wallace Stevens in book form. Includes poets John Ciardi, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Randall Jarell, Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Wallace Stevens, Yvor Winters and First appearance of many important poems, including Stevens' "The Pleasures of Merely Calculating" and "The Sense of the Sleigh-of-Hand Man," and Hughes' "Mississippi Levee" and "Early Evening Quarrell." Near Fine in Very Good or Near Fine dustjacket. Item #16143
First Edition, limited to 1500 copies. Uncommon poetry anthology which includes works by Hervey Allen, Stephen Vincent Benet, George Allan England, Joyce Kilmer, Du Bose Heyward, Leonora Speyer, Margaret Widdemer, Clement Wood, Harold Vinal, Sara Teasdale and many others. Scarce in dustjacket. Near Fine, contemporary inscription, in Very Good dustjacket, light stain to spine, shallow loss at spine ends. Item #21807
First Edition. Limited Edition signed and numbered by the author. Poem celebrating the world's greatest city. This copy inscribed by the author. Nice black and white city scape dustjacket art. Near Fine, some spotting to covers, in Very Good dustjacket, light wear to spine ends and edges. Item #7093
First Edition. Limited Edition signed and numbered by the author. This number 1120 of 1941.Poem celebrating the world's greatest city. Signed by author limitation page. Nice black and white city scape dustjacket art. Very Good with light staining to cloth at spine and spine edges in Very Good plus dustjacket with wear to spine edges, creasing and light surface wear to front edges, and short closed tear to rear bottom edge. Item #14279
First Edition. Collection of humorous Jazz Age poems and songs. Nice deco style color illustrations. Scarce and fragile produced book. Very Good, some nicking to spine ends and spine gutters, in Very Good dustjacket, small spine end and flap corner chips. Item #8051
First Edition. Original light green cloth, gilt lettering at spine, gilt decoration at front cover. Uncommon collection of Thompson's poetic works. Very Good plus, tipped in title page mildly detached at lower end, cloth showing some rubbing at spine ends. Item #12946
First Edition, Limited Edition of 252 copies. Tall octavo, original cloth and printed dustjacket. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Collection of English verse. Uncommon in 19th Century dustjacket. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, lacks lower 2 1/2 inches of spine, about three square inches of loss at top rear panel, some other chipping to panels. Item #35841
First Edition. Small octavo, original white boards with gilt decoration and original (but without print) dustjacket. Collection of poems and quotes, including several by Thoreau. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, light stain at lower spine area. Item #29196
Presumed First Edition. Short collection of heroic poetry by the likes of O. W. Holmes, Walter Scott, Longfellow and Robert Browning. Near Fine but for two central pages with shadows from dried leaves, in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners. Item #25960
First American Edition. Collection of poems dealing with movements in Spain, Germany, Japan and America. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with shallow chipping to top edges and top spine end. Item #13119
Presumed First Edition, no printing statement. Poetry collection critical of modern American society. Fabulous art-deco dustjacket design. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #16625
Presumed First Edition, no printing statement. Poetry collection critical of modern American society. Fabulous art-deco dustjacket design. Near Fine, small contemporary previous owner signature at front endpaper in Very Good dustjacket, nicked at spine ends, small abrasion at lower spine end. Item #37794
First Edition. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few small edge chips. Item #16994
First Edition. Collection of poems by the Swedish winner of the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature, and only the second of Von Heidenstam's works to be translated into English. With an introduction by translator Charles Wharton Stork. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few closed tears, small piece of scotch tape at top front flap corner. Item #26044
First Edition. Dustjacket art and illustrations by Richard Taylor. Rimes and poetry of twenty three classic tales, including King Arthur, Romeo and Juliet, David Copperfield, and Ivanhoe. Very Good with some foxing to cloth, in a Very Good dustjacket with light edge wear, few small nicks and short closed tears, soiling to rear panel and light surface wear to spine. Item #18381
First Edition. Collection of poetry by American poet. Attractive orange and yellow boards. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket but for spine darkened and foxing to dustjacket panels. Item #18924
First Edition. Herbert E. Fouts dustjacket art. Collection of poetry that includes an early appearance of romance writer Edna Robb Webster. Very Good in a Good only dustjacket, lacking rear flap, chipped at all edges. Item #41262
First Edition. Herbert E. Fouts dustjacket art. Collection of poetry that includes an early appearance of romance writer Edna Robb Webster. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by one of the contributors, David Gittleman, at front endpaper. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, some staining at lower spine area, chipped at spine ends and flap corners. Item #41303
First Edition, Advance Review or Proof Copy in original printed yellow wrappers. Illustrated by Laurie Tayler. Rare collection of humorous golf poetry with illustrations mostly featuring female players of the sport. Some inked corrections presumably made by the author. Very Good in wraps. Item #20577
First Edition. Collection of poetry in 19th Century printed and decorative dustjacket. Photographic frontispiece portrait of the author, with facsimile signature. 250 pages. Near Fine, gift inscription at front endpaper dated 1900, in Very Good mildly soiled dustjacket, shallow edge chipping. Item #25998
Second Edition. African-American interest. Uncommon collection of poetry written in dialect by a white author. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and edges, top rear panel with quarter sized chip. Item #22915
Early Reprint Edition, with dustjacket featuring an image of Whitman at front panel. Probably from the 1910's or 20's. With "Facsimile autobiography variorum readings of the poems and a department of Gathered Leaves". Original decorative dark green cloth, gilt lettering, green dyed top page edge, frontis plate of Whitman with facsimile inscription. Uncommon early 20th Century edition of Whitman's seminal poetry collection, this copy exceptional for retaining the original publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Scarce. Near Fine but for unfortunate inked name and school at lower page edge, in Very Good dustjacket with modest soiling, shallow chipping at spine ends, flap corners and lower front panel. Item #25968
First Edition Thus, with "Facsimile autobiography variorum readings of the poems and a department of Gathered Leaves". Original decorative dark green cloth, gilt lettering, gilt top page edge, frontis plate of Whitman with facsimile inscription. The last of the 19th Century editions of Whitman's seminal poetry collection, this copy exceptional for retaining the original publisher's printed dustjacket. Scarce. Near Fine, two short gift inscriptions at front endpaper (one from 1925, the other dated 1962), in Very Good plus white dustjacket that would presumably be prone to soiling, this example only very lightly so, with some shallow chipping along top edge, chipped at spine ends. Item #27119